Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his party's victory in the parliamentary elections, conveying his "sincere felicitations" and "wishing success".

New Delhi: After every election in India, it is very common to see people debating on how many MPs from Minority communities especially Muslim community will march into the parliament according to the people’s mandate and 2019 Lok Sabha Election was no different, as soon as the results of LS Polls 2019 came out people on social media started debating the number of Muslim MPs that were elected.

The BJP and its ally Apna Dal(S) have won 62 of Uttar Pradesh's 80 Lok Sabha seats, demolishing the challenge posed by the SP-BSP alliance, which has managed to get 14 seats between them.

An article in ‘The New York Times’ called Modi ‘dangerously incompetent’ and expressed concern over how voters had chosen to ‘prolong this nightmare’.

The benchmark BSE Sensex rallied over 400 points in early trade Friday a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP got an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha elections.

Mangaluru: The Congress-JD (S) alliance in the state and Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha has faced an unexpected defeat. We were unable to win even though the party leaders and activists struggled day and night. We respect and accept the people's mandate, said Minister UT Khader.

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan won the Rampur seat, defeating BJP candidate Jaya Prada by a margin of 1,09,997 votes.

Chandigarh: Congress has won eight parliamentary seats in Punjab, bucking the pro-Modi trend seen across northern and central India in this general election.